1858 | The government of India was officially transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown under The Government of India Act 1858.

1932 | American physicist Carl David Anderson discovered and photographed the first known antiparticle called a ‘positron’.

1934 | Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became the commander-in-chief of the German armed forces.

1986 | Then President of Iraq Saddam Hussein offered peace to Iran in an open letter.

1989 | NASA confirmed the discovery of 3 more moons on Neptune by Voyager 2. The moons were temporarily designated as 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24.

1990 | Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, while its head of state, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, fled to Saudi Arabia.

2017 | Bitcoin Cash was created through a hard-fork of Bitcoin's blockchain technology and brand.

2020 | SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken marking the first commercial crewed mission.